and only actively connived hold the working bureaucracy will be broken they have beer exposed. tunately for this view, the response of most of the plant leaderships has not been to contest the bureaucracy but to go along with it.
The Morning Star hailed Mos •valis sc-our oul as a victorv. an leading Communist Party venor Jack Adams refused to call acnieving out Longbridge.
The agreement between BL and the unions will strengthen the hold class of the bureaucracy when Negotiating Committee and will invorve micil and tne plant icadersnip • in participation.
Taken in weakelle SIOD organisation, the net result will be 9. increase vus caulial ! dent shop floor activity.
The struggle.
T021 fightback in the Joint tremely hopeful implementation of the deal.
conjunction with the stewards welc on strike role of the prospect that and reduce indepen UCS DILC LiC build a LEYLAND fightback in BL is made harder by betrayal ana aereal. Yer :has to be built. . sign was response of BL membership to th‹ Union Evans Within a week of the 19 April deadline more than 18,000 workers came the lacre was ever whole of Bi by would be shut down within a week, which took action.
nauonal orniciais From the beginning, EngineerU.P.A.
mains ed the thai ing Union president Terry Duffy had openly scabbed by instructing his members to accept the deal and arruss luc bicker mes ransnor general secretary Moss refused to call a nationa strike and attemoted to achieve the thing as Duffy, although Evans appeared to be more militant combine.
promisilig to back any section When this showed every sign of leading to an all-out strike, direction. trade union organisation in BL na not yet been destroyed. As the response of the membership showIne basis or a nigniback re Building that fightback will re quire much more than more militancy Firstly, its objective will have to be the replacement or ine present leadership the plants and the establishment of a combine leadership.
1. ne oreser leadershij unreformable and must be replac A combine-wide response is essential adequate fight against bawarde.
Second, , we must develop the political answers to the company's propaganda that all this is essentia 's survival.
for the crisis and nationalisation of car and component industry under workers contol In the coming months deepening crisis of the industry wi anderine une arguments or bou the reformists and the company sacrifices today means LOmOTTOW BI alternative to the policies of th Pormen leadership a new one can be The Leyland Action Committee played an important role in th struggle against the document an national conference calle by the Leyland Action Comutte for 7 June will be a first step in thi
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